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RE: Oh, dear readers, you are not gonna want to miss this one!
Steemit would be better off without bots in my humble opinion although I have no idea how the platform will sort it out. Maybe the users will in time, The folks who don't use them will have a chip on their shoulders about them & may end them with a flag war when their reps have the power. The folk who do use them may have what addicts call 'a moment of clarity' Realize that they are being conned for short term gain & turn on them as well.
We will see as the platform grows & more whales are created there is already enough negative press on the usage of bots let's hope it gathers pace & we see the back of them.
I got no problem with using a bot to vote the authors you support, it's the buying/selling of votes by bots that give the bots a bad name.
Without voting bots this platform is a quagmire.
With selling bots there is no real curation of the content.
I didn't realize there were different types of bots. I haven't used any so I guess I'm in the quagmire?
I used steemvoter because it was free, when they started charging for premium I tried not having it for a while, but I missed out on too much content because I couldn't remember who I was looking for, so I paid the money.
Buying/selling votes is reward pool rape, imo.